Jumbo Love!

I am loving the baby elephant trend in stamp sets at the moment. Baby elephants are so adorable.

I have this super cute stamp set from Penny Black called Jumbo Love. It has three super cute baby elephants in it. I have used one of the images from the set to make my card.

I tried my hand in watercolouring without the outline. This is also a trend at the moment. It is super hard I tell you. But failed big time. I don’t have a lot of patience and with a number of disturbances, it just did not work. So I watercoloured the image by stamping it using Black Soot distress inks and just water brush to dilute the black into grey on the elephant. I like this better because of the defined edge. For the balloon I coloured with Worn Lipstick distress inks. Then once everything was dry, I colour washed the background with Spun Sugar distress ink. I also let the black bleed a bit outside because it gives a little shading and depth. Pretty happy with how this cutie turned out. Here is a closeup where you will see how the black soot outline is used to both colour the image as well as to add depth by shading on the outside.